With four days left until the classic, a comeback in the Champions League, with a great game in the second half with a hat trick from Vinicius in Ballon d’Or mode. Nothing gives Madrid fans more. Dortmund had the first half to take revenge for the final lost in London four and a half months ago, but in the second the game was too big for them and Madrid overcame them with epic play, the element in which they do best. He moves as he has demonstrated so many times in this stadium and in this his fetish competition. The defeat would have been a blow to the self-esteem of a team that right now seems to be on pins and needles in a season in which Real Madrid fans promised them very happy with the expected signing of Mbappé.
Furthermore, the defeat, added to that of the previous day in Lille, would have set off all the alarms, compromising the classification at a time when criticism is intensifying.
Ancelotti’s eleven
Modric in the center of the field
Against the Germans, Ancelotti resorted to his most classic eleven, a 4-3-3 again with Modric in the midfield. The team had two very different faces. In the first one it was slow in creation. Their laborious football lacked any fluidity and Dortmund, who had quite a few casualties, had no problem controlling the game during the first half hour, in which there was not a single shot on goal.
After that stretch the game became livelier because Dortmund found a way to hurt Madrid with very little. A steal of the ball from Brandt to Lucas Vázquez allowed a great pass from Guirassy to Malen, who shot Courtois. In full anxiety, with Madrid still stunned by the blow, after four minutes, they received another to the jaw, a second goal from a cross from Malen himself and a free shot from Bynoe-Gittens entering from the right that he did not manage to reach. defend a Lucas Vázquez running desperately and again portrayed again.
The first part
Dortmund strikes twice
In the last ten minutes, Madrid reacted with fury and in the same play accumulated all the bad luck in the world, two clear shots that went off the crossbar, first from Rodrygo and then from Bellingham, who a minute before had had a header without goal. no one to bother him to score.
Madrid retired to the locker room enraged and above all with the strange feeling of being faced with one of those days in which nothing comes of it.
The second part
Madrid, overturned
The second half, which began without a change of players, was going to be very different, with Madrid unleashed, seeking to lock Dortmund in their area from the initial whistle. Kobel began to appear. He took a very good shot at Lucas Vázquez and then another more focused shot at Vinícius, until then without any weight in the game. The Brazilian festival would not take long to appear.
At the hour mark, Madrid’s attack was rewarded by a precise cross from Mabppé and a great header from Rüdiger, also unmarked. The drama for Dortmund had only just begun. Two minutes later the VAR validated Vinícius’s position, who happily scored 2-2 after another pass from Mbappé.
There was half an hour left with a broken game and Madrid very grown, smelling the comeback that was already halfway underway. Dortmund had made defensive changes and was not mentally in the game.
The final sprint
A three-goal rush
Kobel took a ball from Mbappé who was sneaking in. Courtois joined the party by scoring a goal ball but Madrid’s surge was now unstoppable. Lucas Vázquez certified the comeback after a defensive error that left him an open corridor to face Kobel and two more goals from Vinícius in the final stretch, two personal actions brand of the house, put the finishing touch to another comeback, the umpteenth magical night in which the Bernabéu ended up singing “Vini Ballon de Oro, Vini Ballon de Oro”.
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